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              to the Editor: Whose ICANN Is It, Anyway?</A></B></FONT> 
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              trickling from the ICANN hearing on Capitol Hill made some people 
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        backs off Harry Potter fight </A></B><BR>
        <DD><I>03/19/2001 &nbsp; from CNET News.com</I><BR>
        <DD>A teenage leader in the crusade to keep Warner Bros. from 
        steamrolling over Harry Potter fan sites will get to keep her domain 
        name. </DD></DL></FONT>
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        Africa to fight for southafrica.com name</A></B><BR>
        <DD><I>03/19/2001 &nbsp; from Reuters</I><BR>
        <DD>South Africa vowed on Friday to fight for the right to its name on 
        the Internet when the ownership of the domain name southafrica.com is 
        argued in a New York court next month. </DD></DL></FONT>
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        launches Korean language domain service </A></B><BR>
        <DD><I>03/19/2001 &nbsp; from Korea Herald</I><BR>
        <DD>Microsoft said it began receiving keyword-based Internet domain 
        registrations in the Korean language yesterday through its Web portal 
        site Microsoft Network . </DD></DL></FONT>
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        weighs choices on .org, .net and .com</A></B><BR>
        <DD><I>03/16/2001 &nbsp; from ZDNN</I><BR>
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        VeriSign and registries for the .com, .net and .org domains. 
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        <DD><I>03/16/2001 &nbsp; from ZDNN</I><BR>
        <DD>The idea seems simple: make it possible for people to enter domain 
        names in their normal script system. </DD></DL></FONT>
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        <DD><I>03/16/2001 &nbsp; from Wired News</I><BR>
        <DD>The chaos that Vint Cerf recently warned about from alternative 
        top-level domain (TLD) providers is already happening. </DD></DL></FONT>
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        Can Register.com Win Domain Name Game?</A></B><BR>
        <DD><I>03/16/2001 &nbsp; from @NY</I><BR>
        <DD>Domain name registrar Register.com just can't catch a break these 
        days. </DD></DL></FONT>
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        href="http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/article/0,,10_711461,00.html">Domain 
        Systems CEO Explains BulkRegister.com E-Mail </A></B><BR>
        <DD><I>03/16/2001 &nbsp; from Internet News</I><BR>
        <DD>When reached at the BulkRegister.com office Friday morning, the 
        registrar's Director of Marketing Rebecca Whalen confirmed to 
        InternetNews.com that CEO Tony Keyes was let go Tuesday, along with 19 
        of 34 total employees, but vehemently denied that company was completely 
        dead. </DD></DL></FONT>
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        <DT><B><A 
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        Monopoly Furor Follows Twomey Appointment</A></B><BR>
        <DD><I>03/16/2001 &nbsp; from Internet News</I><BR>
        <DD>(ICANN) has been criticized for protecting the monopoly of US domain 
        name registrar VeriSign, and of not supporting more open international 
        competition among registry businesses. </DD></DL></FONT>
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        Web of Babel</A></B><BR>
        <DD><I>03/16/2001 &nbsp; from Salon</I><BR>
        <DD>Former ICANN chairwoman Esther Dyson says a new domain name system 
        threatens to disrupt the Internet </DD></DL></FONT>
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